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Millicent Fanny Preston-Stanley Vaughan
Biography
Millicent Fanny Preston Stanley (1883–1955), politician and feminist, was born Millicent Stanley in Sydney in 1883, the daughter of a grocer named Augustine Stanley and his wife Frances (née Preston).
1 portrait in the collection
Alex Ellinghausen
Biography
Alex Ellinghausen (b. 1982) is an editorial photographer with Fairfax Media.
1 portrait in the collection
Alex Dimitriades
Biography
Alex Dimitriades (b. 1973), actor, grew up in Earlwood, Sydney, the son of first-generation Greek immigrants.
1 portrait in the collection
Alex Frayne
Biography
London-born, Adelaide-based photographic artist and filmmaker Alex Frayne (b.
2 portraits in the collection
Alex Jelinek
Biography
Alex Jelinek (1925–2007), architect and designer, graduated from the technical building school of Hradec Králové, near Prague, during World War II.
1 portrait in the collection
Alex Wodak AM
Biography
Alex Wodak, doctor, trained at St. Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, then worked as a medical registrar in several London teaching hospitals before beginning research on alcoholic liver disease.
1 portrait in the collection
Alex Kolozsy
Biography
Alex Kolozsy left his native Transylvania for Hungary as a small child.
1 portrait in the collection
Alex Mitchell
Biography
Alexander George Mitchell (1911-1997), academic, studied English literature and language at the University of Sydney and the University of London before joining the English department of the University of Sydney, where he assumed the McCaughey Chair of Early English Literature and Language in 1947.
1 portrait in the collection
Henry Edwards
Biography
Henry (Harry) Edwards (1827–1891), actor and entomologist, arrived in Melbourne in 1853 after a short-lived attempt at studying for a career in law.
1 portrait in the collection
Gordon Watson AM
Biography
Gordon Watson AM (1921-1999), pianist and teacher, taught at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music from 1964 to 1986 and was head of its keyboard department when he retired.
1 portrait in the collection
Gustavus Brooke
Biography
Gustavus Vaughan Brooke (1818-1866), actor, was a seasoned theatre performer by his early teens; at fourteen, he played Richard III.
1 portrait in the collection
Claudia Karvan OAM
Biography
Claudia Karvan OAM (b. 1973), actor, grew up in Sydney and made her first film appearances as a ten-year-old.
1 portrait in the collection
Nic Walker
Biography
Nic Walker spent his early years in Cairo and Beijing with his father Tony Walker, a foreign correspondent.
1 portrait in the collection
William Macleod
Biography
William Macleod, artist and magazine proprietor, attended the Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts as a young teenager and saw his first illustration published in 1866.
4 portraits in the collection
Megan Gale
Biography
Megan Gale (b. 1975), model, entrepreneur and media personality, achieved fame in Italy before becoming widely recognised in Australia.
1 portrait in the collection
Ross Watson
Biography
Ross Watson specialises in interpolating representations of lithe semi-naked men into copies of paintings by masters such as Vermeer, Ter Borsch, David and Bronzino.
2 portraits in the collection